Oh hey, I WENT ON A UN-ANNOUNCED WEEK HIATUS. Haha, OOPS. Honestly? School gave me 686 homework that week and I didn’t even have time BECAUSE I WAS SO STRESSED, I hardly any time to even like to THINK ABOUT BLOGGING.

I also feel like my posts were of very little quality?? Like I just…Idk MAN. I feel like my stats are going downhill and I’m not putting that much effort into my posts anymore.

VERDICT:Not a very good blogging month.

I became more active on Goodreads! I made a lot of ‘friends’ and interacted a lot. WHich was kind of bad as well? because I wasted a lot of time on it as well and I HAD SCHOOL. And I shouldn’t have got so addicted. (ALSO FRIEND ME)

Lu interviewed me!BECAUSE SHE’S NICE LIKE THAT. It was like Cake queen and Ice cream queen AND IT WAS SO AWESOME.

I hit 1337 likes!Okay, don’t’ ask me why WordPress notifies me of these things? BUT YES THIS IS VERY COOL OKAY.

I decided to quit blog hopping and I WILL ONLY BE COMMENTING BACK.Apart from like my favorite 10 blogs, if you don’t comment on my blog, I won’t have time to check out your blog. When I have holidays I’ll check out your blog regardless but right now I have no time. SORRY GUYS.

I entered like 686 giveaways. #sorrynotsorry. I WILL PROBABLY NOT WINY ANY OF THEM but retweeting giveaway tweets is actually addicting. I need to stop okay. SOMEONE STOP ME.

One of my tweets went subtly viral. I THANK YOU, ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. EVEN my sister appreciates me okay??? I HONESTLY AM SQUEAKING THE FREAKING THE GEEKING OUT. LOVE YOU ALL.

STEPS ON BECOMING A WRITER-complain-buy notebooks that will never be used-have plot bunnies eat your brain out-waste time on twitter

ALSO ACE OF SHADES.Sorry, I AM A MESS. Amanda Foody is giving so many teasers of her new book AND I JUST NEED IT. She is literal genius okay? I NEED THE BOOK RIGHT NOW OKAY?! I like NEED it in my HANDS. I’m dying. Send help. OR HER NEW BOOK PLEASE.

And look Cait @ Paper Fury FREAKING FOLLOWED MY TWITTER. I AM SO NOT FREAKING THE FLIP OUT OKAY?? I AM NOT OKAY. In other news, this gu with a blue tick followed me BUT I have no idea who he is SO LET’S STICK TO FANGIRLING OVER CAIT FOLLOWING ME. AGHAHA.

My blog design is being appreciated.But a reminder that I DID NOT DESIGN IT. All thanks go to Emily @ Books and Cleverness (link in my footer) for designing. STILL, THANK YOU RAIN FOR GIVING ME THIS AWARD. It means SO MUCH TO ME!

I’m also on a Netgalley ban BECAUSE I NEED TO CATCH UP. Until 2018 I declare myself banned from requesting any books from NetGalley. I have so many ARC’s on there THAT I NEED TO READ like yesterday okay??

School kind of took over my life. Like kind of? Weekends were okay but honestly…? I JUST WAS SO STRESSED OKAY.

I didn’t do yoga? I went from Yogi Queen to the person who died. Hi, I disappoint myself so much.

I’m doing Nanowrimo soon! I am actually really scared because this is my first time but I am really motivated and I have a plot and I really like it BUT I CAN’T TELL YOU much. I haven’t even started outlining. Send help.

I only managed to watch the first episode of GBBO and…??It’s okay? LIKE THE PREsENTERS ARE PRETTY COOL; I like them. But I feel like Paul gives out too many handshakes and NO THEY SHOULD BE RARE?? And I haven’t had time to catch up with the rest of the episodes.

I ate a waffle.It tasted great, to be honest. I HAD NO ICE CREAM WHICH WAS TORTURE but it’s very cold here?? SO LIKE I don’t think ice cream was the best especially because I got ill.

I honestly didn’t do much apart from like…SCHOOL.I reserved a lot of library books and spent a lot of time emailing publishers for ARC’s but PEOPLE DON’T SHIP INTERNATIONAL AND I AM SAD

I baked cookies! Which was super fun AND THEY TASTED DELICIOUS OKAY??? I love baking.

And if my recaps couldn’t get any longer… OH WAIT THEY COULD. I’m going to add a quick section for goals. Since I’ve just started there’ll be done from last month because THEY DON’t ExIST.

{goals for next month}

Reach 1350 followers (currently 1262 followers)

Order Our Dark Duet and my Bullet Journal

Buddy read ODD with Lu

Post better quality posts

Stick to my blogging schedule – no unplanned hiatus, please.

hopefully, get accepted for at least ONE PHYSICAL ARC

Read at least 8 books

3 of them should be from Netgalley

STICK TO THE NETGALLEY BAN

Stop procrastinating and do homework on time and NOT LAST MINUTE!!

Prepare for Nano

Have some ice cream excuse me

How was your September! TELL ME ALL THE THINGS. What was your favorite read? Did you do any exciting things? ARE YOU SCARED FOR NANOWRIMO TOO? What are your goals for next month? AND DID YOU HAVE ANY ICE CREAM?? (feel free to link me to your recaps!)

AWWW YOU LINKED TO MY POST *SENDS ICECREAM* THAT’S SO NICE OF YOU #ThankYou.

I also entered LOADSSSSS of giveaways but HA I’m not going to actually win any. . . lol that’s the only hope that I have at the moment (and that all my favourite characters don’t get sucked into a blackhole)

EEEEP! Yes i know you voted for ODD my book will be here VERY SOON so can’t wait to Buddy Read it with you) AND YES STILL FREAKING OUT CAIT FOLLOWED ME. ASDFGHJK:LKJHGFGHJHGF.
I haven’t even read Caraval yet. #oops. Is it good?
AND OF COURSE, I LINKED TO YOUR POST. LU? Did you expect anything else of the queen.
I WON ONE GIVEAWAY THIS OCTOBER!! WHOOP WHOOP

Thanks so much Bridget! Yesss, Emily’s blog IS SO AESTHETIC! And yours too ❤ Yeah, I'm glad I am back at blogging consistently though that mini-hiatus was really great.
AWW NOO. Everyone reads at their own pace so it's fine! I'm just a bit of a book monster, to be honest. XD

I’m doing NaNo too! Next month I will finish the last little details of my books – figuring out some stuff and make the text more light – and do some study for my next book and NaNo too.

Talking about Goodreads I fell culprit, because I’m one of those “firends”. But the sad reality is that I’ve barely time to be on there. Really, how people manage to have even a social life?
By the way, I’m so happy for The Raven Boys but sad about Dream Thieves. It actually happened the contrary to me 🙂

I am so scared for Nano but i am also really excited because this is my first time! good luck ❤

I spend more time on Goodreads than I should! I hope you get more time for reading and GR too! YESS I LOVED THE RAVEN BOYS. But The Dream Thieves was sooo boring for me. I hope I like Blue lilly lilly blue better!

WHY DID YOU SHOW ME PICTURES OF YOUR COOKIES??? YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I WANT COOKIES LAK;JDFL;AKSJDFASLD.

Anyways — wow we read a lot of the same books this month!! Like 3. But then all the other ones are books I’ve read as well too??? (Except for The Book Thief… hahahhahaaha.) Also, I’m glad you think the same for Spellbook! (I KNOW YOU STOLE THAT “WORD APPEARS EVERYWHERE NOW” THING FROM IT THO.) I’ll have to hunt your GR review down if you wrote one.

Also I had a hard time deciding between Warcross and Our Dark Duet but frankly,, WARCROSS IS SO GOOD. Join me and Ju in screaming about it. (Also we need to make a Hangouts group chat together ajdfl;kaj;sldfkasd.)

Okay last I checked your friend count (stalkerish, I know… I WAS JUST LOOKING AT YOUR PROFILE and noticed your friend count okay??) it was at like 100 or something and NOW IT’S AT FRICKING 200 WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN. Like obviously YES because you’re a great person but just… A;JLDKFJASD. Idk why I’m freaking out over this??

What are your 10 favorite blogs, hmmmmm? Also YES YES YE SYES YES EYSE YSE YOU’RE DOING NANOWRIMO OMGGGGG YESSSSS ILSA I WILL BE THERE TO HELP YOU IF YOU NEED IT (even tho this is like my second time…) Oh and congrats on that Tweet going viral!! And getting 1,337 likes!! WordPress stopped notifying me of those achievement thingies and I’m sad. 😦

I’m SORRY. I wish I could send you the cookies but they are all finished (and all mysteriously disappeared)

“I KNOW YOU STOLE THAT “WORD APPEARS EVERYWHERE NOW” THING FROM IT THO” Honestly tht was a coincidence! i do remember that being mentioned but here was what actually gave me the inspo
1)we learnt a new word in English
2)I saw it in the raven boys the very same day
3)I showed it to my friend
4)I thought it makes a good GR status

I WON WARCROSS IN JU’S GIVEAWAY! EEP SO EXCITED.

People love me so much, I have so many friends? JUST KIDDING, i don’t even know how. You have 275 friends or something (I’m guessing?)

10 favourite blogs? WELL WELL. They include YOUrs and Kris and Cait and Sahsa and a few others. BUT THAT SHALL REMAIN SECRET.

I AM SO ExciTED FOR NANO I CANNOT EVEN. BUT I AM SO SCARED TOO. I think I can actually win it though?!

Congrats on not dying from school!! (I think I did. A tad bit. Might just be a ghost atm. Just in time for Halloween which is brilliant!) Death by school sounds intriguing and awfully boring at the same time somehow.
I loved The Raven Boys but I am pushing trough Dream Thieves since…july…yeah…I WANTED TO LIKE IT SO BADLY!!
International shipping is the bane of my existence. Why oh why does it cost so much huh?? If I were a publisher I would pay for your shipping because you deserve it!! You should get all the ARCs (look at me making heartfelt complimets)!
YESSS THE WAFFLEEEE COME JOIN MEEE!!
And now that I remained chill for the duration of this comment I will just Assdfahjakallahdgsj YOU LINKED TO MY POST?? THANK YOU??? Ok I am squealing so so much #sorryneighbors.

I AM ACTUALLY A GHOST THOUGH SO I CANNOT DIE. MUhaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Unless ghosts can die? then go eat some ice cream. OH YES HALLOWEEN! exciting. pumpkins too WHICH IS WHAT I AM HERE FOR.
AGhhh, The Dream Thieves? I hope I like Blue lily lily Blue better! talk about long titles though.

I HOPE I GET SOME ARC’s SOON? I have like a billion from Netgalley but I really hope to get at least one physical copy! THANKS so MUCH! you have the best compliments.

WAFFLES

and yyesss of course I linked to your post! I LITERALLY WANT TO EAT YOUR BLOG IT’S SO GOOD.

I’m also planning on doing nano and freaking out a bit! Good on you for beating out ten books despite being crushed by work 😀 and those cookies look AMAAAAAzzzing now I have hunger pangs. And omg yes the netgalley struggle is real. I had to chuckle at your self imposed ban 😂

School is killing me, too! But wow, you managed to have a really good reading month despite drowning under homework- I wasn’t that successful, haha. 😉 Also, Wonder by RJ Palacio is amazing! It’s going to be a movie pretty soon as well. I’ll be looking forward to seeing what you think about it! Happy almost-October!❤️

YES! Somehow I still read 10 books? I don’t even understand myself. sometimes. okay what all the time. I am a mystery. OOH I HOPE I LIKE WONDER!! Oh yes I think I saw something about the movie. I’m even more excited! I hope you have a great spooky October too!

Amazing post, as always! Hope you’re feeling better, and congrats on all your follows ☺️ Why have I still not read any VE Schwab??!! Teach me your ways of reading 10 books a month while keeping up with class work because I can literally only manage 3-4 books a month now I’m back at uni 😫 good luck with NaNoWriMo and all your other October goals ❤️

Thank you! Why am i replying to this comment so late? AND HAVE YOU READ SCHWAB BY NOW. And ahhh I HAVE A LOT OF FREE TIME?!?!? But 3 or 4 books is still awesome! AT LEAST YOU ARE STILL READING. Thanks for the comment!

I STILL HAVEN’T READ ANY VE SCHWAB!! Still have Vicious on my shelf, possibly a 2018 read? I’m going to try and find more time in my schedule for reading, especially after I graduate in the summer 🎉 I started 2017 with 8 books a month, but that slowly went down 😅 Always reading! ☺️ Happy New Year!!

I have eaten ice cream this month, since you asked, and I weep for you that you have none! What is life without ice cream? I am glad for you that you ate a waffle though. And baking cookies is good for the spirit! Also eating cookies…yum.
I sympathize with you SO MUCH about school. School has been taking over my soul and my blogging life is virtually nonexistent at the moment which is very sad. I really appreciate you mentioning my post! I myself had nearly forgotten of its existence. Merci buckets.
I read no books this past month and now I am dead. Seriously, school robs me of my sanity. But I have kept up with writing my story. That is about it right now.
My goals for next month are as follows:
1) Survive School
2) Don’t die
This might prove difficult as I am already dead, but we will see how it goes.
Thanks again for mentioning me, and good luck with juggling school and blogging and all sorts of other essential life things like ice cream and waffles!

i am glad you have eaten ice cream!!! THAT IS SO GREAT!! i am so very proud of you. EATING AND BAKING COOKIES IS A FABULOUS AMAZING THING AND I WANT TO MAKE IT MY JOB.
No books? Hardly any blogging? WHY MUST SCHOOL eb so cruel? Why must our happines come to a stop? WHY CAN’T OUR LIVES BE FULL OF WAFFLES? WHY NOT??!?! *screams into void* GOOD LUCK ON SURVIVING SCHOOL AND NOT DYING EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD!! Thanks for the luck!!

I don’t know why, but this post was super awesome … I love how it was so neat and professional. *weirdly just read this post after I haven’t really read your posts in forever* *is busy* Really, though, I kind of wondered over because of the pingback and I was like, “Whoa … this blog is cool … look at all the pretty formatting … I want to steal some o these ideas for a monthly recap … because I need to work on mine.” 😉

Wow, I should probably read that post you linked to about staying on top of commenting. I think I’m still pretty good at it, but I’ve definitely been slacking a little compared to the past! I also get your choice to stop blog hopping. I like hopping and can often find interesting stuff that way, but other times I devote a good chunk of time to it and just don’t find anything I’m captured by at all. It can be very hit or miss, so definitely a good thing to cut back on to focus on school and whatnot.

Oh wow I am SO LATE ON REPLYING TO THIS COMMENt. Sorry Briana looks like I’ve been slcaking on commenting! And yeah blog hopping is something I now want to get back into it because I do love it. It’s a little messy and sometimes I don’t find amazing content but I think its great idea

No more blog hopping? NOOOO! Haha, I’m kidding, you should always do what’s best for you, so good for you for knowing what that is!
I really hope you reach your followers goal for next month, and I know how you feel with the Netgalley ban, I’ve put myself on one too. I requested too many when I first started and now I have to deal with what I’ve done…

I’m so glad you enjoyed Cinder so much and I can’t wait for you to read the rest of the series, it just gets better and better! ❤ Also, I'm eager to hear your thoughts about Bone Gap, I thought it was a bit weird, but… I like weird, so it did not bother me too much?
I also want to do NaNoWrimo but….well I have no idea for now, I just miss the whole atmosphere of NaNo hahaha.
I hope you'll have a fabulous October xxx

I’m glad I enjoyed Cinder tooo! I have no idea when I’ll get to the rest of the series. I STILL HAVEN’T READ BONE GAP RIP ME I LOVE WEIRD THOUGH. Thanks sooo much for the comment and sorry on replying too late!!

Wooow I can’t believe how many followers you have. Share your secrets please???? It sucks that you didn’t enjoy The Dream Thieves. I found that both The Dream Thieves and Blue Lily, Lily Blue dragged a bit in the middle meaning I put off reading them for ages, only to be sucked in for the last 1/3 of the book. I think they’re also books you have to be in the mood for. Hopefully you enjoy Blue Lily, Lily Blue more.

Also, The Death Cure trailer shocked me!! I haven’t even read the last book yet and I read the first book before the movies were even announced. I’m not ready???

School seems to be killing us all! Ughhh – why does it have to be so annoying, so demanding, and so exhausting? #dunno *wails*

Life is like a series of ups and downs. There are good times & bad times, happy times & sad times, energetic tmes & tired times andddd……you get the picture. What I want to say is…it’s ok if life in September (school or blogging wise) wasn’t that awesome. It happens! BUT, I hope October is a much more stress-free, work-free, or just much more relaxed & exciting! Happy Autmn! 🙂

I’ve heard like a MILLION good reviews for Starfish, so I’m actually pretty excitied to start reading it very soon! 🙂

Shcool is out to get us allllllllllll. WE MUST SURVIVE AND FIGHT IT TOGTHER
AWW OMG THIS IS SO SWEET I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO KEEP POSITIVE SO THAT MEANS A LOT. i hope you love starfish and im sorry on being so late to replying to this

School always want to become our life, doesn’t it? I only just started blogging during school-break, so please do tell, how in the world do you manage your blog and school simultaneously? You even read 10 books in a month!*gasps*
I’ve read The Book Thief (it’s brilliant, non?) and I’ll probably pick up one the V.E. Schwab books soon.
Good luck with NaNoWriMo, I’m sure you will do fantastic!

SCHOOL SHALL TAKE OVER SOON DEAR PANDA. ahah okay that was dramatic. I DONT KNOW HOW I BALANCE MY LIFE. (psst dark magic) ahahha NOTHING. And yeah 10 books. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!
And the book theif was marvellous glory so i hope you enjoy Schwab books!

okay but i can have some virtual cookies to cheer me up please and thank you 🙂

AND OMG CAIT FOLLOWED YOU?? SHE’S LIKE MY BOOK TWITTER IDOL. (??) CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Did you win any of your giveaways?? I mean you must have because you participated in so many ha ha xD
I read Lord of Shadows which was so!! good!! and made me cry so much omg the feels :”) THE RAVEN CYCLE IS SOOO GOOD I LOVE MAGGIE STIEFVATER’S BOOKS ❤ ❤ ADAM IS THE BEST OMGG. But ronan also ❤
and gansey and blue and asdjksjldl i just love everyone.

I HAD ICE CREAM!! it was like one scoop of chocolate but i still had some.

My September was not the greatest, life things got in the way and my blog suffered horribly because of it. I’m hoping to get back to blogging regularly in October, starting with my September wrap-up, a discussion post, and a huge mega update on what I’ve been reading and some stats. And I’ve been loving your tweets!

You ate a waffle??? That’s so cool! I’ve never eaten a waffle before, I wonder what they taste like. 😀 And you baked cookies ummmm that makes me hungry, the pics look so good!!!!!
Congrats on the viral tweet, 400 and something liked is amazing!! My maximum likes ever was 18 or something LOL 😛
School has also taken over my life lately, I hope I come back to normal now that the beginning of the school year is kinda over. 🙂
I hope you reach all your goals for next month!!
AMAZING post!!!!!! ❤

wow. waffles. so interesting. i mean what?? I LOVE WAFFLES. But cookies and ice cream are geat too! THANK YOUUU ❤ And?/ I'm just some lucky dork who comes up with crazy tweets. good luck for October!! ❤ And thanks for commenting.

Ugh, I feel like school’s been taking up all my time as well. Like, I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS. It’s just stressing me out at this point. I’ve actually added both of Moira’s books on my TBR lately, so hopefully I enjoy them (both of them sound so interesting). AND I HOPE YOU LOVE VICIOUS (it’s my favorite of hers). And, NOOOO to not liking The Dream Thieves! That’s easily my favorite book in the entire series, because RONAN and PYNCH WHISPERINGS, but I also enjoyed Blue Lily, Lily Blue and The Raven King, so I hope you at least enjoy those! Thanks so much for linking back to my post! ❤

School si great…HAHA OKAY WHAT I AM DYING INSIDE. But this month there hasn’t been TOO MUCH PRESSURE so I should be okay. I can’t wait to read Vicious and ODD. Aghhh, I found The Dream Thieves so boring?? I hope I enjoy Blue Lilly Blue more?

My hiatus is officially over today so I’m taking some time to check out everyone’s wrapups and posts 🙂

It seems like you had a decent month even if your blogging wasn’t on par…. the tweet thing is SUPER COOL I’m insanely jealous that you can even think of such funny/relatable tweets, never mind actually get attention for them. 10 books is SUPER AWESOME I’m insanely jealous, I read nothing and I wasn’t even blogging *sob*

but I did meet Amanda Foody and now I’M SO OBSESSED and so I need to read her books, especially since I now know that you like them too.

Hi Joce! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!! I am SOOO GLAD YOUR BACK! I hope you had a great hiatus!

HAHA I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT MY TWEETS ARE. I just come up with some random stuff and hope for the best. I am lucky, I guess? It’s okay! We all read at our own pace. 10 books is quite a big deal for me too!

NO NOOOOO. YOU MET AMANDA FOODY? I AM SO INSANELY JEALOUS. Daughter of the Burning City was AMAZING. I hope you LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

ILSA OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing my bookworm post… I actually loved that post but it wasn’t popular so ♥️♥️♥️♥️ for the VALIDATION! #icecreamsent

Congratulations on your viral tweet AND Cait following you!! It’s great when bucket list items are checked off… You were an INCREDIBLE reader this month! With school and all that was unexpected?! I didn’t much like Dream Thieves much either but felt a villain to all the fans if I said so… good luck with NaNo, it’s a great way to reach your goals! I definitely NEED to read Schwab (I have a Darker Shade of Magic on hold!) Happy reading in October Ilsa! 🌈

Yas for going big on Twitter that’s so awesome! And OMG I know I fangirled when Cait followed me!! EEP I’m so happy you liked TSS ODD WILL DESTROY YOU. Also still crying that you didn’t like Illuminate 😭😭
Your blog is beautiful so it deserves all the love! I’ll be prepping for NaNo this month too and I’m only slightly freaking out that it’s less than a month away?!??? 😱

AGHH, I don’t think I will every go Twitter Viral (?) again but It was great while it lasted. AGH CAIT FOLLOWS YOU TO. We shall fangirl together. ASDFGHJKLKJHGFDSDFGHJK. I can’t wait for ODD! It should be coming in the mail soon. ANd yes, I am so sad I didn’t like Illuminae. I KNOW RIGHT. How can Nano Be so soon? SEND HELP

Haha going Twitter Viral is hard! Yas Cait and I are kind of friends?!?!?! I HAVE A FAMOUS FRIEND Y’ALL. I don’t know how it happened. Also we are always arguing over who will be Queen of the Universe and I threaten to set her dragon secretaries on her.

I HOPE YOU ARE DESTROYED BY ODD. I mean this in the kindest way possible obviously. I guess, if you love ODD I can forgive you about Illuminae hahaha